Struggling Economies In Ohio Cities Could Sway Votes

DAYTON, OH - MAY 11: The sun sets over downtown Dayton on May 11, 2004 in Dayton, Ohio. Once a post-war American boomtown in the 1950s and 1960s, Dayton's economy sputtered in the 1970s with the national decline in heavy industry and with business giants like NCR, Frigidaire and Mead. Ohio's economic woes have continued during the Bush presidency; since January 2001 the state has lost 265,000 jobs, 162,000 of them in manufacturing. Ohio's economic woes are key to making the state a critical state in the 2004 presidential race. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)